The only death of a fictional character making national news that MORE nuts than the death of Superman is the death of Godzilla. Seriously, when Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (which did NOT get a dubbed american release until years later) came out in JAPAN, it made the news in AMERICA. That’s how big of deal the deaths of popular fictional characters can be.

Also, another silly fact. The original, Action Comics No. 1 explanation of Superman’s strength, speed, and agility (that he was born on a planet with 15 times the gravity of Earth) not only makes more scientific sense than the modern sunlight-powered version, but also allows us to extrapolate the internal structure of the planet Krypton itself, and therefore have a rather specific reason why it eventually exploded.

Go read The Physics of Superheroes by Kakalios, it’s a great read with all sorts of interest ways how comics often get there physics WAY more right than you’d expect.

Except that we know that one of the consequences of astronauts dealing with low/no gravity is loss of muscle mass and bone density. So while that baby would have been super, he’d be just a normal kid by the time he started kindergarten.

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